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+Andrew is part of Arm’s Strategy & Ecosystem and Developer platforms leadership team, heading up Arm’s Open Source Office and is responsible for Arm’s relationship and engagements with software communities. With over 25 years of deep engagement with open source communities under a variety of employers, through the years he has held various positions with a variety of projects and foundations. Currently he is the Chair of the Yocto Project and sits on the Board of the PyTorch Foundation, FreeBSD Foundation, Xen Project and on the TSC/TAC/SC of PyTorch, Zephyr, UXLFoundation. He has previously served on the Board of the Rust Foundation, OpenUK and openSUSE Project. To support his work with the various communities, Andrew is often at most of the open source events that are held globally.
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+Ankit Patel is a senior director at NVIDIA, leading developer engagement for SDKs, APIs, and tools. He joined NVIDIA in 2011, transitioning from GPU product manager to software product management in virtualization, ray tracing, and AI. Previously, he managed video editing and live production products at Matrox Video and Blackmagic Design. Ankit holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Concordia University and an MBA from Cornell University.
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-Niles Burbank is Director of Product Management at AMD, responsible for a family of data center GPU products. Based in Markham, Canada, he has been involved in the computer hardware industry since 1995 in a range of technical and management roles. Niles shares AMD’s passion for working together with the wider community to deliver the software and hardware tools that will advance AI. He holds an MASc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto. Fred Li, General Manager of Open Source Development at Huawei's Computing Product Line, brings over 20 years of technology and open-source experience since 2015. Serving as the platinum director of OpenStack Foundation and representing Huawei in PyTorch Foundation and LF AI & Data, he's a pivotal figure in open source. Fred initiated the openEuler community in 2019, nurturing multiple open-source communities with thousands of engineers and millions of users. With expertise in IT product development, project management, and open-source strategy, Fred is committed to global open-source advocacy.
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+Joseph Spisak is the Director of Product Management for AI at Meta. A veteran of the AI space with over 10 years experience, Joe led product teams at Meta/Facebook, Google and Amazon where he focused on open source AI, open science and building developer tools such as PyTorch to help the community scale up AI in an open and collaborative way. As the leader of product for PyTorch, he and the team built an amazing platform and community that made PyTorch the leading open source AI development framework in the industry and took it to the Linux Foundation. Joe is also an angel advisor to companies like Anthropic, Lastmile.AI (former FB), EvolutionaryScale (former FB), Udacity, Lightning.AI, and others.
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-Alex is the Senior Vice President of AI and Developer Technologies at Arm, where he is responsible for helping developers build their best AI experiences and software applications on the most ubiquitous computing platform on the planet, from Cloud to Edge. Prior to Arm, Alex was VP of Product Management for Machine Learning at Google. At Google he was responsible for TensorFlow and the technologies and infrastructures that power Google’s machine learning and AI services. Alex previously led product and engineering for LivePerson, FastCompany’s #1 ranked AI company for 2022, where he built technology to enable enterprises to build their own conversational assistants. He held positions at Amazon, leading the core software platforms for Alexa, and product and engineering for Amazon’s Search. At Thomson Reuters, Alex oversaw product and technology for news and media, including ultra-low latency AI-driven news categorization and synthetic news for financial professionals. Alex started his career as a software engineer in New York City and he has an MBA from Duke University.
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-Dwarak Rajagopal, a seasoned technology leader, boasts over 20 years of experience with pivotal roles at Google, Meta/Facebook, Uber, Apple, and AMD. Currently a Sr. Engineering Director at Google, he leads AI Frameworks and OnDevice ML teams, driving innovations in AI and LLMs on server/mobile for efficiency. At Meta/Facebook, he led the PyTorch Core Frameworks team, advancing AI research to production. His contributions span self-driving software at Uber, graphics technology at Apple, and compiler development at AMD. Dwarak's dedication to democratizing AI, open-source software, and ethical practices defines his commitment to shaping the future of technology.
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+Kismat works as VP S/W of AI Frameworks team at Intel. The team focuses on frameworks like PyTorch, TF and other inference/serving engines. Prior to Intel Kismat worked at Nvidia for 8 focusing on AI S/W frameworks/libs like TensorRT, Deep learning compiler etc.
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-Fred Li, General Manager of Open Source Development at Huawei's Computing Product Line, brings over 20 years of technology and open-source experience since 2015. Serving as the platinum director of OpenStack Foundation and representing Huawei in PyTorch Foundation and LF AI & Data, he's a pivotal figure in open source. Fred initiated the openEuler community in 2019, nurturing multiple open-source communities with thousands of engineers and millions of users. With expertise in IT product development, project management, and open-source strategy, Fred is committed to global open-source advocacy.
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-Lysandre is the Head of Open Source at Hugging Face. Lysandre has been at Hugging Face since the company’s pivot to open-source, and was the first engineer to focus entirely on the open-source mission. Now leading the open-source part of the organization, Lysandre remains technically involved by being a core maintainer of the Transformers library.
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+Luca Antiga is the CTO at Lightning AI. He is an early contributor to PyTorch core and co-authored “Deep Learning with PyTorch” (published by Manning). He started his journey as a researcher in Bioengineering, and later co-founded Orobix, a company focused on building and deploying AI in production settings.
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-Kismat works as VP S/W of AI Frameworks team at Intel. The team focuses on frameworks like PyTorch, TF and other inference/serving engines. Prior to Intel Kismat worked at Nvidia for 8 focusing on AI S/W frameworks/libs like TensorRT, Deep learning compiler etc.
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+Lysandre is the Head of Open Source at Hugging Face. Lysandre has been at Hugging Face since the company’s pivot to open-source, and was the first engineer to focus entirely on the open-source mission. Now leading the open-source part of the organization, Lysandre remains technically involved by being a core maintainer of the Transformers library.
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+Niles Burbank is Director of Product Management at AMD, responsible for a family of data center GPU products. Based in Markham, Canada, he has been involved in the computer hardware industry since 1995 in a range of technical and management roles. Niles shares AMD’s passion for working together with the wider community to deliver the software and hardware tools that will advance AI. He holds an MASc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto.
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-Luca Antiga is the CTO at Lightning AI. He is an early contributor to PyTorch core and co-authored “Deep Learning with PyTorch” (published by Manning). He started his journey as a researcher in Bioengineering, and later co-founded Orobix, a company focused on building and deploying AI in production settings. Shauheen Zahirazami has a PhD in control engineering and BSc in applied mathematics. He is currently leading Cloud TPU Machine Learning teams at Google who are responsible for ML Frameworks and 3P ecosystem including the PyTorch teams that develop PyTorch/XLA.
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-Supporting the PyTorch team within Meta. In the past Damien has worked on compilers, static analysis, programming languages, virtual machines and developer tools. Damien is passionate about developer productivity and building strong organizations to support developers.
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-Ankit Patel is a senior director at NVIDIA, leading developer engagement for SDKs, APIs, and tools. He joined NVIDIA in 2011, transitioning from GPU product manager to software product management in virtualization, ray tracing, and AI. Previously, he managed video editing and live production products at Matrox Video and Blackmagic Design. Ankit holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Concordia University and an MBA from Cornell University.
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